December Tournament Results

In December there were some great live tournaments. One notable European tournament was the 13th Istanbul Backgammon Championship. Local female backgammon player, Ayse Deniz Akalin took the championship title.

On the other side of Atlantic, the American Backgammon Tour (ABT) hosted the California State Backgammon Championship.

Here are the full results:

WBF-TURKIYE 13th ISTANBUL BACKGAMMON CHAMPIONSHIP
December 20-21, 2008; Istanbul, Turkey

CHAMPIONSHIP (157+42 rebuys): 1-Ayse Deniz Akalin, 2-Cemalettin Yüksel, 3/4-Fatih Ünalan / Irfan Mizrakçi.

DOUBLES CONSULTATION (39 teams): 1-Ercan Özçelik & Mehmet Hulusi Tümer, 2-Rifat Bulut & Aysun Utkular, 3/4-Akay Can Dagkiran & Mehmet Ersoy / Ergun Sen & Erkul Sen.

ARENA EVENT (238): 1-Dilek Gülen, 2-Erhan Dogrusöz, 3/4-Cevat Araz / Mehmet Manav.

LADIES PRIZE (11): 1-Ayse Deniz Akalin, 2-Dilek Gülen.

ABT - CALIFORNIA STATE BACKGAMMON CHAMPIONSHIP
December 5-7, 2008; Van Nuys, California

OPEN (60): 1-Hugh Sconyers (NV), 2-Bob Koca (MD), 3-Badei Khoury (CA); 1C-George Matthews (CA), 2C-Peter Wagner (NV), 3C/4C-Chris Knapp (Canada) / Dana Nazarian (CA).

ADVANCED (25): 1-Stevie Grund (PA), 2-Harry Borekcian (CA); 1C-Kathleen Davis (MO), 2C-Patrick McCormick (CA), 3C/4C-Irving Gold (CA) / Josh Racko (CA).

SUPER-32 (32): 1-Neil Kazaross (IL), 2-Zafer Yasa (CA), 3/4-Mark Antranikian (CA) / Ted Chee (CA).

PAUL DINGWELL AMATEUR JACKPOT (16): 1-Jim Slomkoski (MI), 2-Rudee Gessie (Canada).

2-POINT QUICKIES (16): 1-Saul Meir (CA), 2-Ted Chee (CA).

DOUBLES (16 teams): 1-Jona Alexander (CA) & Nick Maffeo (CA), 2-Odis Chenault (CA) & Julius High (NY).

OVERFLOW DOUBLES (8 teams): 1-Richard Armbruster (CA) & Norm Wiggins (CA), 2-Harry Borekcian (CA) & Edward Donigian (CA).

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